Red Dog Yachts

Episode 100

July 17th, 2022

The Rosie G is an innovative, new, scow bowed, junk rigged, boat that came from the mind of Barry and Samatha Spanier. She was designed by Jim Antrim and built by Cree Partridge and his yard at the Berkeley Marine Center. All of these folks are friends of the show, which is why it was such a treat to sit in the dog house on Rosie G in the Emeryville Marina and talk with Barry and Samatha about the boat’s conception, construction, and coming sea trials.

Episode 26, Part 1

September 29, 2019

Long before Barry Spanier started Maui Sails and became a legend in  windsurfing sail design, he built a ferro-cement sloop in San Francisco  and sailed off to the South Pacific. He was running away from the madness of the 1960s, but he found plenty of new crazy adventures, from  "borrowing" the 76-foot Alden Schooner Constellation, to having a curse put on him, to loosing his boat and almost his life when he was shipwrecked off New Zealand.

Episode 27, Part 2

October 6, 2019

In the 60s, Barry Spanier built a boat in San Francisco, sailed it  through the South Pacific and then lost it, and everything but his life, in a shipwreck. Starting over again, he launched a sail loft in Hawaii, Maui Sails, and became a legend in windsurfing sail design. Today he's building another boat at the Berkeley Marine Center. 

The Rosie G is a junk rigged, scow-bow 42-footer designed by Jim Antrim. 

      Episode 87

Cree Partridge / Racer, Boatbuilder, Owner of Berkeley Marine Center

January 10, 2022

Cree Partridge started building boats in his parents front yard while still in elementary school. His passion for being on the water started at a young age and continues to this day. In college, he channeled his desire to be on the water into racing and traveled all over the world to crew aboard big, fast boats. He then got into boat building. For the past twenty years he’s run the Berkeley Marine Center, where he helps bring many a dream to life.   

 Episode 96

Jim Antrim // Designing & Racing an Eclectic Portfolio of Sailboats  

May 15, 2022

Jim Antrim, often called the Wizard of El Sobrante, is a naval architect who apprenticed under Dick Carter, Britton Chance and Gary Mull. He’s designed record breaking multihull and monohull sailboats as well as popular production boats. He’s an expert in composite material engineering and has developed several computer programs used in performance analysis and prediction. 

I met him in his office to talk about many of his designs and how he got into naval architecture in the first place.